4 – Marquee players scheduled to appear at Allstate Stadium this season: the Capitals' Michael Chang (July 10); former Capital Anna Kournikova of St. Louis (July 13); and Kansas City's Bob and Mike Bryan (July 21), the twin sons of Capitals coach Wayne Bryan.
50 million – Dollars allegedly earned off the court by Kournikova before she turned 18, according to Sports Illustrated. She's now 28.
17, 3 – Age in years and months at which Chang won the 1989 French Open to become the youngest male Grand Slam singles champion in history, a distinction he still holds.
0 – Additional Grand Slam titles won by Chang, who was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame last year.
2 – Chang's career-high world singles ranking.
1 – Additional match victory Chang needed to become No. 1 in the world. He would have reached the summit if he had not lost to Pete Sampras in the 1996 U.S. Open final.
34 – Years of WTT's existence.
24 – Years of the Capitals' existence.
6 – WTT titles, a record, won by the Capitals (1997-2000, 2002 and 2007).
2 – Remaining players, Mark Knowles and lifelong Sacramentan Sam Warburg, from the Capitals' last WTT championship team.
110 – Combined career men's and women's doubles titles won by the Capitals' Rennae Stubbs (59) and Knowles (51).
9 – Combined Grand Slam titles won by Stubbs (four in women's doubles, two in mixed doubles) and Knowles (three in men's doubles).
5 – Years since Stubbs' last Grand Slam title (Wimbledon women's doubles with Cara Black).
2 – Years since Knowles' last Grand Slam title (French Open men's doubles with ex-partner Daniel Nestor).
75 – Combined age of Stubbs (38) and Knowles (37).
2 – Capitals (Knowles and Stubbs) older than Chang (37), who retired from the international circuit in 2003.
1 – Player on the men's tour older than Knowles (6-foot-8 Dick Norman, 38, of Belgium).
1 – Player on the women's tour older than Stubbs (former top-five singles player Kimiko Date-Krumm, a 38-year-old Japanese who ended an 11-year retirement last year).
3 – WTT Male MVP awards won by Knowles (2001, 2005 and 2007), tied for the men's record with ex-Capital Brian MacPhie (1996-98) and second overall to Martina Navratilova's four (1978, 1991-93).
132 – Warburg's career-high world singles ranking one year ago.
217 – Warburg's current singles ranking because of a sore shoulder.
32 – Career-high singles ranking of the Capitals' Olga Puchkova in 2007.
207 – Current singles ranking of Puchkova, who was plagued by nagging injuries.
29 – Date in April on which Warburg (1983), the Bryan twins (1978) and Andre Agassi (1970) were born.
3 – WTT Coach of the Year awards (2004-06) won by Wayne Bryan in his seven years with the Capitals.
17 – Countries represented on WTT rosters this season.
344 – Combined singles (167) and women's doubles (177) titles won by the Boston Lobsters' Navratilova, the winningest player in tennis history.
52 – Age of Navratilova, the oldest player in the league.
20 – Years, a record, that Navratilova has played WTT.
4 – Decades in which Navratilova has played WTT.
14, 5 – Age in years and months of the Philadelphia Freedoms' Madison Keys, who will be the youngest player in league history.
19 – Days Keys is younger than Michelle Larcher de Brito when she debuted on the Capitals' 2007 championship team.
17, 10 – Age in years and months of the New York Buzz's oldest player, Alex Domijan. The four-member team consists of U.S. prospects.
Call The Bee's Paul Bauman, (916) 326-5515.
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